
Prevention System Quality Index: Health Equity
This is the third Prevention System Quality Index report. This report monitors and recommends system-level policies and programs that can reduce cancer risk factors and exposures in Ontario. It highlights opportunities to reduce tobacco use, alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating and physical inactivity in groups with health inequities.
Highlights of the Report include:
- Ontarians facing health inequities are more likely to get certain cancers and less likely to survive them;
- Comprehensive strategies across multiple sectors and levels of government are needed to reduce cancer risk factors, which affect all Ontarians but especially those facing health inequities; and
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Ontario are a major focus of this report.
Resource Information
Date
April 1, 2018
Author
Cancer Care Ontario
Type
Report, Strategy/Framework
Setting
Farmers Market, Grocery/Retail, Home, Long-term Care, Recreation Centre, Restaurant/Food Service Premise, School, Workplace
Age
Prenatal, Infant, Toddler (1-3), Children (4-11), Youth (12-17), Adults (18-64), Older Adults (65 and over)
Topic
Chronic Disease Prevention, Food Security & Access to Food, Food Systems & Local Food, Health Equity, Healthy Eating, Physical Activity
Language
English
Jurisdiction
Provincial, Provincial (Ontario)
Tags
chronic disease prevention, dietary intake, food access, food environment, food literacy, food security, food system, garden, health equity, healthy eating, indigenous, menu labelling, nutrients, nutrition education, physical activity, policy, program, school, social determinants of health, strategy, sugar-sweetened beverages, tax, vegetables and fruit